Sample size requirements calculation using three different Bayesian criteria in the context of designing an experiment to estimate a normal mean or the difference between two normal means. Functions for calculation of required sample sizes for the Average Length Criterion, the Average Coverage Criterion and the Worst Outcome Criterion in the context of normal means are provided. Functions for both the fully Bayesian and the mixed Bayesian/likelihood approaches are provided. For reference see Joseph L. and Bélisle P. (1997) <https://www.jstor.org/stable/2988525>.

This package provides peak functions, which enable us to detect peaks in time series. The methods implemented in this package are based on Girish Keshav Palshikar (2009) <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228853276_Simple_Algorithms_for_Peak_Detection_in_Time-Series>.

Miscellaneous supplementary functions designed to follow idiomatic R conventions. Some functions are simple wrappers that reduce repetitive code, while others address common tasks or extend existing R functions.

This package provides a set of functions allowing to implement the SpiceFP approach which is iterative. It involves transformation of functional predictors into several candidate explanatory matrices (based on contingency tables), to which relative edge matrices with contiguity constraints are associated. Generalized Fused Lasso regression are performed in order to identify the best candidate matrix, the best class intervals and related coefficients at each iteration. The approach is stopped when the maximal number of iterations is reached or when retained coefficients are zeros. Supplementary functions allow to get coefficients of any candidate matrix or mean of coefficients of many candidates. The methods in this package are describing in Girault Gnanguenon Guesse, Patrice Loisel, Bénedicte Fontez, Thierry Simonneau, Nadine Hilgert (2021) "An exploratory penalized regression to identify combined effects of functional variables -Application to agri-environmental issues" <https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03298977>.

An updated and extended version of spm package, by introducing some further novel functions for modern statistical methods (i.e., generalised linear models, glmnet, generalised least squares), thin plate splines, support vector machine, kriging methods (i.e., simple kriging, universal kriging, block kriging, kriging with an external drift), and novel hybrid methods (228 hybrids plus numerous variants) of modern statistical methods or machine learning methods with mathematical and/or univariate geostatistical methods for spatial predictive modelling. For each method, two functions are provided, with one function for assessing the predictive errors and accuracy of the method based on cross-validation, and the other for generating spatial predictions. It also contains a couple of functions for data preparation and predictive accuracy assessment.

Network sparsification with a variety of novel and known network sparsification techniques. All network sparsification techniques reduce the number of edges, not the number of nodes. Network sparsification is sometimes referred to as network dimensionality reduction. This package is based on the work of Spielman, D., Srivastava, N. (2009)<arXiv:0803.0929>. Koutis I., Levin, A., Peng, R. (2013)<arXiv:1209.5821>. Toivonen, H., Mahler, S., Zhou, F. (2010)<doi:10.1007>. Foti, N., Hughes, J., Rockmore, D. (2011)<doi:10.1371>.

This package provides tools for the optimization of stratified sampling design. It determines a stratification of a sampling frame that minimizes sample cost while satisfying precision constraints in a multivariate and multidomain context. The approach relies on a genetic algorithm; each candidate partition of the frame is an individual whose fitness is evaluated via the Bethel-Chromy allocation to meet target precisions. Functions support analysis of optimization results, labeling of the frame with new strata, and drawing a sample according to the optimal allocation. Algorithmic components adapt code from the genalg package. See M. Ballin and G. Barcaroli (2020) "R package SamplingStrata: new developments and extension to Spatial Sampling" <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2004.09366>.

Generalized additive models under shape constraints on the component functions of the linear predictor. Models can include multiple shape-constrained (univariate and bivariate) and unconstrained terms. Routines of the package mgcv are used to set up the model matrix, print, and plot the results. Multiple smoothing parameter estimation by the Generalized Cross Validation or similar. See Pya and Wood (2015) <doi:10.1007/s11222-013-9448-7> for an overview. A broad selection of shape-constrained smoothers, linear functionals of smooths with shape constraints, and Gaussian models with AR1 residuals.

This package provides a fast and efficient implementation of Sobol sequences for quasi-Monte Carlo methods. The Sobol sequence is a low-discrepancy sequence with the property that for all values of N, its subsequence x1, ..., xN has a low discrepancy. It can be used to generate quasi-random numbers for use in Monte Carlo integration and other simulation methods. This implementation is based on the algorithms described by Bratley and Fox (1988) <doi:10.1145/42288.214372> and uses direction numbers from Joe and Kuo (2008) <doi:10.1145/1358628.1358630>. The package includes both batch and incremental interfaces with support for arbitrary starting indices and reproducible sequences. It uses Rcpp for efficient C++ integration.

Estimate attribute values for one set of polygons from values measured on a different, misaligned set. Provides area-weighted areal interpolation and a dasymetric method that distributes values across a point layer (such as parcel centroids). Count (extensive) measures are total-preserving; rate (intensive) measures use area-weighted means.

Shapley Value Regression for calculating the relative importance of independent variables in linear regression with avoiding the collinearity.

Understand human performance from the perspective of sampling, both looking at how people generate samples and how people use the samples they have generated. A longer overview and other resources can be found at <https://sampling.warwick.ac.uk>.

Holds functions developed by the University of Ottawa's SAiVE (Spatio-temporal Analysis of isotope Variations in the Environment) research group with the intention of facilitating the re-use of code, foster good code writing practices, and to allow others to benefit from the work done by the SAiVE group. Contributions are welcome via the GitHub repository <https://github.com/UO-SAiVE/SAiVE> by group members as well as non-members.

This package provides a set of consistent, opinionated functions to quickly check objects, coerce them to the desired configuration, or deliver informative error messages when that is not possible.

This package implements Support Vector Machine Oblique Decision Trees (SVMODT). Recursively builds classification trees using linear Support Vector Machines (SVM) hyperplanes at each node instead of axis-parallel splits, creating oblique decision boundaries. Features include multiple feature selection methods, dynamic feature subset strategies, class weight support for imbalanced datasets, pruning and feature penalization.

Computes multivariate normal (MVN) densities, and samples from MVN distributions, when the covariance or precision matrix is sparse.

Spatial forecast verification refers to verifying weather forecasts when the verification set (forecast and observations) is on a spatial field, usually a high-resolution gridded spatial field. Most of the functions here require the forecast and observed fields to be gridded and on the same grid. For a thorough review of most of the methods in this package, please see Gilleland et al. (2009) <doi: 10.1175/2009WAF2222269.1> and for a tutorial on some of the main functions available here, see Gilleland (2022) <doi: 10.5065/4px3-5a05>.

It allows to rapidly compute, bootstrap and plot up to fourth-order Sobol'-based sensitivity indices using several state-of-the-art first and total-order estimators. Sobol indices can be computed either for models that yield a scalar as a model output or for systems of differential equations. The package also provides a suit of benchmark tests functions and several options to obtain publication-ready figures of the model output uncertainty and sensitivity-related analysis. An overview of the package can be found in Puy et al. (2022) <doi:10.18637/jss.v102.i05>.

We propose a novel two-step procedure to combine epidemiological data obtained from diverse sources with the aim to quantify risk factors affecting the probability that an individual develops certain disease such as cancer. See Hui Huang, Xiaomei Ma, Rasmus Waagepetersen, Theodore R. Holford, Rong Wang, Harvey Risch, Lloyd Mueller & Yongtao Guan (2014) A New Estimation Approach for Combining Epidemiological Data From Multiple Sources, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 109:505, 11-23, <doi:10.1080/01621459.2013.870904>.

This package implements statistical methods for detecting evolutionary shifts in both the optimal trait value (mean) and evolutionary diffusion variance. The method uses an L1-penalized optimization framework to identify branches where shifts occur, and the shift magnitudes. It also supports the inclusion of measurement error. For more details, see Zhang, Ho, and Kenney (2023) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2312.17480>.

This package provides a new diagram for the verification of vector variables (wind, current, etc) generated by multiple models against a set of observations is presented in this package. It has been designed as a generalization of the Taylor diagram to two dimensional quantities. It is based on the analysis of the two-dimensional structure of the mean squared error matrix between model and observations. The matrix is divided into the part corresponding to the relative rotation and the bias of the empirical orthogonal functions of the data. The full set of diagnostics produced by the analysis of the errors between model and observational vector datasets comprises the errors in the means, the analysis of the total variance of both datasets, the rotation matrix corresponding to the principal components in observation and model, the angle of rotation of model-derived empirical orthogonal functions respect to the ones from observations, the standard deviation of model and observations, the root mean squared error between both datasets and the squared two-dimensional correlation coefficient. See the output of function UVError() in this package.

An introduction to several novel predictive variable selection methods for random forest. They are based on various variable importance methods (i.e., averaged variable importance (AVI), and knowledge informed AVI (i.e., KIAVI, and KIAVI2)) and predictive accuracy in stepwise algorithms. For details of the variable selection methods, please see: Li, J., Siwabessy, J., Huang, Z. and Nichol, S. (2019) <doi:10.3390/geosciences9040180>. Li, J., Alvarez, B., Siwabessy, J., Tran, M., Huang, Z., Przeslawski, R., Radke, L., Howard, F., Nichol, S. (2017). <DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27686.22085>.

Corrects the spelling of a given word in English using a modification of Peter Norvig's spell correct algorithm (see <http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html>) which handles up to three edits. The algorithm tries to find the spelling with maximum probability of intended correction out of all possible candidate corrections from the original word.

This package provides nonparametric Steinian shrinkage estimators of the covariance matrix that are suitable in high dimensional settings, that is when the number of variables is larger than the sample size.